Rest isn't weakness. It's fuel. Every expedition has base camps for a reason. - Bear Grylls

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

It wasn’t until the final years of her life that Neville and Patsie became almost reunited.
Neville now lived a few hundred yards from the house that I grew up in as a teenager on the Isle of Wight, and Patsie in her old age would spend long summers living with us there as well.
The two of them would take walks together and sit on the bench overlooking the sea. But Neville always struggled to let her in close again, despite her warmth and tenderness to him.
Neville had held fifty years of pain after losing her, and such pain is hard to ignore. As a young man I would often watch her slip her fingers into his giant hand, and it was beautiful to see.
I learned two very strong lessons from them: the grass isn’t always greener elsewhere, and true love is worth fighting for.

You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.
There's life in a nutshell.